Well this is going to be about what happend to me when i was at school.
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It was not untill 2000-2001 that a teacher told me she thought i had dysleia, i was 19 at the time and doing a GSCE English resit.
Well my mum had always said to my teachers at school that she thought i had Dyslexica.
well the stroy starts like this..... when i was about five years old i was unable to remember simple nursary songs. or short books. this was the time that my mum first went to my primary school to ask them what they thought my problem was. They told her that i was just SLOW (what they was really saying was that i was stupid)
This did not sit right with my mum as she know that i was not slow at learning other things like maths and was a very good at paintings and drawings.
About two years later when i was seven, and still having problems with my reading spelling and remembering things, she asked the school if they could give me a dyslexica test, what they told her was that there was no need as i don't have dyslecia i am just slow at doing things. (again STUPID).
As my mum did not have the money to pay for a test so she had to let it lye untill i went to secondary school.
well i was able to get into a good secondary school a grammer school noless, but i was only able to get in there because of my sisters went there. My mum thought that this school will do something about it... well guess what. SLOW again. i lasted 6 mouths in that school before my mum desided to move me to a school that she thought would help me.
So i went to this other school, well there i had a school test not the Dyslexia test.. the outcome was that i had problems with me spelling (NO SHIT) so i reseved help for them. But still they refused to state that i had Dyslexia. (It was not untill about 5 years later that i understood why but i will get to that later)
I had the extra English leasons be it only 1 hour a week. Then when i was in my 3rd year or year 9 i was 13-14 my school had to close. so i had to go to a 3rd school. I started this school at the begining of the 4th year or year 10 to some people. Again my mum asked the school to give me a Dyslexia test and again they gave me one of there tests and again problems with spelling (NO SHIT AGAIN). This time the school would not give me extra leasons, why well thats easy they only gave them to children with dyslexia. HOW FUNNY IS THAT.
So i had to go through my last two years of school without any help I had to pass my exams with no help apart for my mum stepdad sisters and brother. Well they are not trained teachers so it was only a little help to me. I managed to pass my exams with Cs and Ds.
Well i said i would explain why i was not given a Dyslecia test at the schools. its funny when you hear it.
IT WAS BECAUSE IT TAKES UP TO MUCH OF A TEACHERS TIME AND THE RESORSES THAT I WOULD HAVE NEEDED WOULD HAVE COST TO MUCH FOR THE SCHOOL. as i said its laughable now.
Well because of constently being told you are SLOW (STUPID) i had a little problem with conferdance, ok a really big problem. I HAD NON. I plooded along trying to fit in but feeling that i was unable to as i was to stupid to join in with others having fun, I only went out with the people that i had known for a long time. not making new friends because i thought they would have called me stupid, so i got bollied, at school i was made to feel like the black sheep of my last school. I got told that i should have been in a school for stupid children someone even told me that i sould kill myself as it would save a lot of pain on my part as i was not good at doing anything. HA. well i did take it to heart and went into my sheel even more.and had so many fights that because people started on me as they thought that i was easy pray this was the only time that i was able to show that i was not that easy to walk on, but still i got bollied as some of the people only started on when when in big groups and they know that i would not beable to do anything about it as i would surelly be over powerd
Well when i left school i did not know what i was going to do. I was just happy to be out of that place. then when i was 18 -19 i desided to do a resit in English this is when my problems seemed to go away. FINALLY some said that i had dyslexia (O HAPPY DAYS) i had extra English leasons again and was able to pass the exams with better marks then the first time around i come out with a B. so im 2002 i finally had the test and yes I HAVE DYSLEXIA. with a very high IQ with superia to very superia marks on the most apart for Spelling (WELL I KNOW THAT :p)
Well now i am at universtiy studying Adult Nursing ( kill my self PAH) i am doing this for me, i always had it in me but since i was diagnosed with having Dyslecia i have been able to live my life again. i have been able to understand that i am not "SLOW" my intellagence is that of 1% of the world.
I am putting this on my site so that other people can learn from what happend to me, so that people can understand what saying nasty things can do to people.
If i was not as stong as i am i would have done what that kid said and "Killed myself" but this dose happen. Children with undiagnosed Dyslexia are one of the highest numbers of children to kill themself or attempet to. im most cases it is avodable. it only takes a good teacher to recognise the signs or to refur or to test them.
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